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Alex Cross(2012) is American crime thriller film starring Tyler Perry as the titular character and Matthew Fox as the antagonist. The film is directed by Rob Cohen based on an adapted screenplay by Marc Moss  and Kerry Williamson. This the third film appearance of the character Alex Cross, the main character of a series of novels by James Patterson. Cross was previously portrayed by Morgan Freeman in Kiss the Girls (1997) and Along Came a Spider (2001). In 2010, Idris Elba was attached to star, but he was replaced by Perry. Filming took place in 2011. The film was released on October 19, 2012 in the United States and Canada.

The film begins with Lt. Dr. Alex Cross (Tyler Perry) chasing after a criminal with the help of his team. After they catch the criminal and arrest him, Cross returns home to his children, Janelle (Yara Shahidi) and Damon (Sayeed Shahidi), his grandmother, Nana Mama (Cicely Tyson), and his wife, Maria (Carmen Ejogo). Cross finds a sonogram faxed to the house and learns Maria is pregnant with their third child. She tells him she's been pregnant for eight weeks, and makes Cross promise not to tell anyone until the twelfth week.

Meanwhile, a mysterious man (Matthew Fox) arrives at a cage fight. He bets ten thousand dollars on himself 

and wins the match. He catches the attention of an attractive woman, Fan Yau (Stephanie Jacobsen). At Yau's mansion, the man paralyzes Yau, takes out a pair of clippers and places a bowl under Yau's hand. He tells her that she has ten chances to answer his question, everytime she answers wrong, she loses a finger.

In the middle of the night, Cross gets a call from Captain Richard Brookwell (John C. McGinley) informing him on Yau's murder. Cross hangs up and calls his partner Tommy Kane (Edward Burns). Kane and Cross argue about Kane's relationship with their coworker Monica Ashe (Rachel Nichols). Cross also tells Kane that he was offered a job as an FBI profiler and that Maria is pregnant.

At Yau's mansion, they find a picture in the style of Picasso. At the Detroit Police Department as they analyse the data, Cross finds the initials E.M. on Picasso's drawing, which Cross realises stands for Erich Mielke.

They police arrive at Mielke's office building, warning the guards. The guards tell the detectives to leave, but one of the guards tells them that the water pressure is lowering dramatically. Cross realizes Picasso is already in the building. They rush to Mielke's office, but Mielke refuses to leave, not trusting the Americans. Meanwhile, Picasso swims up a water pipe and cuts his way out. Picasso goes through a meeting room to cut to the office, but finds Mielke has trapped himself and Kane in the office with a bullet-proof door. Cross holds Picasso at gunpoint and orders him to drop the gun. Picasso does so, but ejects a bomb out of his belt and escapes.

Back at DPD, Cross tells an angry Brookwell him what he knows, that 'Picasso' is most likely ex-military and that that Picasso was trying to kill Mielke to get to his boss, Leon Mercier (Jean Reno). They arrive at Mercier's mansion where Cross warns him about Picasso. Mercier tries to lighten the mood, but eventually tells him he does not want to die. Ashe is in her bathroom when Picasso emerges from the corner and turns the lights off, eventually killing her. Later, Picasso phones Cross whilst he's at dinner with Maria, describing her to him before shooting her.

At Maria's funeral, Picasso watches Cross from his car, drawing a picture of him. Back at Cross's house, Kane is told that Ashe was drugged by Picasso. The drug paralyzes the body, but they still have their sense of feeling. Picasso calls Cross, mocking him for Maria's death and suggesting that the fault lies with him for her fate. Later that night, Cross has the police take Nana Mama and the kids away. The detectives sneak into the evidence locker and take a gun. Cross meets with Daramus Holiday and bribes him with the gun from a murder that Holiday committed, but was never arrested for, to tell him where Picasso gets his drugs. 

Kane also threatens to shoot Holiday. Cross and Kane find the drug dealer. They beat him up until the dealer allows them to look at the security cameras. They watch and see Picasso buying the drugs and get his license number.

Cross and Kane manage to track Picasso's car, which is heading to where Mercier is giving a speech at a courthouse downtown. Brookwell and the DPD shut down the entire block the courthouse is on. Cross and  Kane arrive and tell Brookwell to stop Mercier from coming, because Picasso will find a way to kill him. Picasso then boards a train, hacks into the system, opens the doors and fires a bomb at the courthouse. Cross and Kane try to stop Mercier from entering the building, but are too late. The courthouse blows up, and Mercier is killed. Fellow detective Jody Kieboff (Bonnie Bentley) tracks Picasso's car to the parking garage. Picasso injures Kane but is finally killed by Cross.

Back at the station, Cross manages to call Mercier, who is in hiding in Indonesia. During their conversation, it is revealed that Mercier had hired Picasso and used one of his employees as a decoy to fake his death. Mercier tries to talk his way out, but Cross blames him for unleashing a monster to the world. Then Indonesian police come to Mercier's hide out and find cocaine in his possession, which is punishable by death.

Kane drives Cross back to his house, which now has a for sale sign in the yard, revealing that Cross took the FBI job. Kane hands Cross a resume for a position in the FBI. The film ends with Cross looking at his family.

Directed by Rob Cohen

Produced by Bill Block

                         Paul Hanson

                        James Patterson

                        Steve Bowen

                        Randal Emmett

                        Leopoldo Gout

Screenplay by   Marc Moss

                          Kerry Williamson

Based on Cross by James Patterson

Starring:

Tyler Perry

Matthew Fox

Edward Burns

Rachel Nichols

Cicely Tyson

Jean Reno

Music by  John Debney

Cinematography: Ricardo Della Rosa

Editing by   Thom Noble

                    Matt Diezel

Studio:   QED International

               James Patterson Entertainment

Distributed by  Summit Entertainment

Release date:  October 19, 2012 (United States)

Running time: 102 minutes

Genre:   Action, Crime, Mystery

Budget: $23 million

IMDB rating:  4.8/10

Box office:  $14,318,691

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Sinister (2012)

Synopsis:

Sinister (2012) is a supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. The film opens on Super 8 footage where a family of four are standing under a tree with bags over their heads and nooses around their necks. An unseen figure saws a tree limb acting as a counterweight with a pole saw, and cuts it off, sending the family up, strangling them.

Months later, true-crime novelist Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) moves into the same house as the murdered family with his wife, Tracy (Juliet Rylance), and their two children Ashley (Clare Foley) and Trevor (Michael Hall D' Addario). Ellison uses the murders as the basis for his new book. Supposedly, there were five members in the family and one of the children went missing after the murders.

Ellison finds a box in the attic, which contains a projector and several reels of Super 8 footage that are each labeled as if innocent home movies. He watches the films, all depicting families murdered in various ways, including having their throats slit in bed (Sleepy Time '98), an arson (BBQ '79), being drowned in their pool (Pool Party '66), being run over by a lawn mower (Lawn Work '86) and the hanging that opened the movie (Family Hanging Out '11). The drowning one proves especially disturbing for him, as he sees a dark figure with a demonic face in the pool. Upon seeing figure, strange things begin happening around the house. Ellison continues to observe the films, and discovers strange things in them, such as symbols painted near the murder scenes, and the demonic figure, which he eventually notices in every film.

He calls a deputy (James Ransone) to help him find the location of these murders. After going through the images, the deputy refers him to a local professor, Jonas (Vincent D'Onofrio), whose expertise lies within the occult and demonic phenomena, to decipher the symbol in the films. Jonas tells Ellison that the symbols are that of a Pagan deity named Bughuul, who was known as an eater of children's souls, killing the families of the child and then taking the child to his own netherworld. One night, Ellison hears the film projector running and goes up to the attic. He finds five children (all of whom were the missing from each family after they were murdered) watching one of the films. Bughuul suddenly appears on camera, up-close, unlike in any of the other films. When Bughuul suddenly appears in front of him, Ellison falls from the attic. Having had enough, he burns the projector and the film and moves out with his family. Upon returning to their old house, he goes into the attic and finds the box containing the projector and film, completely unharmed. However, there is a new item inside: an envelope with "extended endings." Within that, Ellison finds that after each murder took place, the missing child would come onscreen, revealing them to be the murderers, and then disappear.

Ellison again chats with Professor Jonas, who sends him scans of rare historical drawings of the mysterious symbol and explains that Bughuul supposedly lived in the images, which acted as portals between his realm and the mortal realm.

Shortly after, the deputy, whose repeated calls Ellison had been ignoring all day, calls again and this time Ellison picks up. The deputy informs him that he has discovered the link between the murders: each family had last lived in the house where the previous murder had taken place. By moving out of the house, the deputy continues, Ellison has put himself and his family in place to continue the pattern. Ellison begins feeling light-headed. He looks in his empty coffee cup and finds a mysterious liquid left behind, then notices the note that was under his cup from his daughter reading "Good Night Daddy", and loses consciousness.

Upon waking, he finds himself, his wife and son bound and gagged in the same manner as the families in the Super 8 films. Ashley walks in, carrying an axe and a Super 8 camera. She then, using the axe, murders her family, and paints the walls in their blood, with several childish images such as unicorns, cats and dogs . She then goes to the projector and plays the film she just took, revealing the children in the hallway. Upon Bughuul's appearance, the children run away. Bughuul's hands are covered in the mysterious green liquid from Ellison's coffee cup, implying it was his blood. Bughuul picks up Ashley and walks into the film with her.

The final shot shows the box of film in the attic of the Oswalt house, this time with a new canister that reads 

"House Painting '12".

Directed by   Scott Derrickson

Produced by Jason Blum

Written by  C. Robert Cargill

                   Scott Derrickson

Starring:

Ethan Hawke

Juliet Rylance

Fred Thompson

James Ransone

Clare Foley

Michael Hall D'Addario

Music by Christopher Young

Studio:  Alliance Films

                 Blumhouse Productions

                 IM Global

Distributed by   Summit Entertainment

Release date:    March 11, 2012 (SXSW)

                           October 5, 2012 (United Kingdom)

                           October 12, 2012 (United States)

Running time:   110 minutes

Genre:   Horror, Mystery

IMDB rating:   7.1/10

Budget: $3 million

Box office: $41 million

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The Raven (2012)

Synopsis:

When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore 

detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.

The film opens in 19th century Maryland – where several Baltimore policemen are chasing after the screams of a woman in an apartment. The police arrive at the apartment in time only to discover a woman sprawled on the floor with her throat sliced open and the corpse of her daughter stuffed in the chimney. Detective Emmett  Fields is called to assist in the investigation and discovers that the crime resembles a fictional murder in the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", which is part of a collection of stories penned by the  writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe has become a social pariah and penniless drunkard whose stories have not been circulated for some  time. He has fallen in love with the beautiful young Emily Hamilton and desires to marry her but faces  opposition from her father Captain Hamilton, a military man who loathes Poe and goes to the length of threatening physical violence. Poe is brought to see Fields for questioning and is horrified to learn someone is using his stories as the backdrop for a series of murders. Fields then proposes that Poe volunteer his services to help the police catch the killer and Poe agrees to the task. The two men are called to investigate the murder of literary critic Rufus Griswold, the man who became Poe's rival after a feud that was published in the Baltimore newspapers. Poe realizes the gruesome crime resembles a scene from "The Pit and the Pendulum" as Fields notices a red demon mask near the corpse. The two then deduce that the scene of the next crime will take place at Captain Hamilton's annual masquerade ball – a scene that will resemble the Masked Ball in "The Masque of the Red Death".

Fields assigns several members of the Baltimore Police to go undercover as guests at the Masked Ball. Sometime before midnight, at the height of the festivities, a man on horseback dressed in a skeleton costume appears. Fields shoots the man only to learn he was an actor hired for the entertainment and receives an anonymous note. Poe then realizes Emily has been kidnapped, meaning the event was all a distraction. It's revealed in the killer's note that he will continue to commit murders and leave clues to Emily's location. The killer then threatens to kill Emily if Poe does not start writing columns for the newspaper that describe the brutal combination of fact and fiction – forcing Poe to comply with the request in order to save Emily.

Later, the local Medical School's anatomy class discovers a live raven and the corpse of a prostitute in theatrical clothing. Poe and Fields investigate and deduce the scene resembles "The Mystery of Marie  Rogêt" except for one detail – the blood on the corpse's hands was not an element of Poe's story. The two soon learn the woman was an actress in costume as Lady Macbeth and rush to the theatre where the victim  worked, demanding to see all the stage hands. All the stage hands are accounted for except for Maurice, a sailor on leave after his ship landed in Baltimore. Poe and Fields notice a mysterious figure running along the catwalks and pursue him but the figure escapes. Fields later makes an off-handed comment that the name of the ship Maurice arrived on is the Fortunato – which prompts Poe to realize the next murder will resemble "The Cask of Amontillado".

Poe and Fields search tunnels under the city with several policemen and discover an area with fresh brickwork, an area that might be where Emily is being held. The officers smash through the brick and discover what appears to be a woman with blonde hair in the costume Emily wore the night she was kidnapped. But the body is revealed to be that of the sailor Maurice, who was dressed to resemble Emily after he was killed and buried in the niche.

Two clues are found on Maurice: a pocket watch that was stopped at 12:27 and then stuffed into his mouth, and a tattoo on his back that had some flesh carved out of it. Poe and Fields deduce these clues will give the location of Emily, and Poe realizes a church in Baltimore called Holy Cross is where Emily must be. 

Everyone races to the church but they find it locked. While attempting to break in, one policeman whose name is PC Cantrell shoots at the killer but the latter jumps from the roof and slits PC Cantrell's throat. Poe and Fields hear the shooting and race to catch the killer who shoots Fields and incapacitates him. Poe takes after the killer in a horse race but the killer escapes. Poe walks back to the church where he meets up with Captain Hamilton, who finally apologizes for his treatment of Poe. Fields discovers a grave at the church that has Emily's name written on a wooden cross, but the grave is empty.

Poe then decides to write a new column in which he tells the killer that he's tired of this game and is willing to exchange his life for Emily's if only the killer would release Emily. Poe dashes this new column off quickly, the editor loves it, and Ivan the typesetter is then tasked with getting the column to print. People in Baltimore, while still enjoying the excitement of the murders, decide to burn down Poe's house because they blame his stories for inspiring this bloodshed.

Poe then moves in with Fields because he no longer has lodgings. In the morning, the maid gives Poe both the newspaper and a letter from the killer. Poe deduces that the killer left the note on the doorstep the night before. Then, the paper boy came by and put the newspaper on top of the note after it stopped raining. Poe therefore deduces that the killer is someone who read his new column before it was published. Poe then assumes the killer is the newspaper editor.

Fields, meanwhile, is having surgery with no anesthetic to remove a bullet from his shoulder. The doctor uses a magnet to find the bullet in his flesh, an experience Fields later uses to realize that the ink the killer used in all his notes was magnetic. Since this is the type of ink used in newspaper printing, Fields later independently realizes that someone at the paper is the killer.

Poe reaches the newspaper office and finds the editor dead, with his hands separated from his arms and his body arranged at his desk as if writing a letter. In front of the editor is a note that reads, "Getting Warmer!" 

Ivan congratulates him on finding him, and then explains that he missed Poe's writing so much that he decided to make up a story of his own and then act it out in real life so that Poe would have to write about it. Poe pulls out a gun but Ivan reminds him that Emily will die if he pulls the trigger. So Poe hands the gun over to Ivan and tells him that he can kill him if he will release Emily. Ivan gives Poe a vial of poison and tells him to drink it, so that he can keep talking to his "favorite writer" while the poison slowly kills him. Once Poe is too weak to go for help, Ivan tells Poe that he's moving to Paris because he wants to do the same to Jules Verne. Poe learns that Ivan will be traveling under the name "Reynolds".

Before Ivan leaves, he makes a reference to the Telltale Heart and Poe realizes that Emily is buried under the floor right where he's sitting. He breaks through the floor into the cellar and digs Emily out. The police get there and put Emily in an ambulance. Poe wanders off to a park bench to die after telling Emily that they will be married in heaven. While he's sitting there, a bearded man comes over and says he recognizes him as "Edgar Poe" the famous writer. That pleases Poe, but the poison has him so addled, all he can say to the man is "tell Fields his name is Reynolds", which the man interprets as nonsense. Later, at the hospital where Poe is pronounced dead, the doctor tells Fields that Poe's last words were unintelligible, that he had "said that Fields' last name was Reynolds".

Ivan is seen exiting a train station in France, and as he enters a carriage Fields greets him with a pistol. Then, Ivan jumps at Fields and a gunshot is heard.

Production:

Jeremy Renner was originally going to star in the film (playing the role later taken by Luke Evans), but he dropped out so that he could star in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Ewan McGregor was also in talks for a role, but he also dropped out. On August 28, 2010, it was confirmed that John Cusack would play Edgar Allan Poe in the film. Joaquin Phoenix was also approached to star at one point.

The filming began on November 9, 2010 in Belgrade and Budapest. The first images from the set were revealed on November 15, 2010. A trailer for the film was released online October 7, 2011. This date is significant because it also marks the anniversary of Poe's death at age 40 in 1849. In 2011 Relativity acquired U.S. rights for only $4 million.

While the plot of the film is fictional, the writers based it in some accounts of real situations surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death. Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name "Reynolds" on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring.

Reception:

Critical reaction to The Raven has been mixed to negative. The film holds a rating of 21% on Rotten Tomatoes and 46% on Metacritic. James Berardinelli gave the film two and a half stars out of four, writing: "The Raven looks great and is well-paced, but a lack of a compelling resolution makes it an anemic effort." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "The story has its moments, and yet there is something about this tale ... that doesn't completely satisfy."

Directed by James McTeigue

Produced by Marc D Evans

                        Trevor Macy

                        Aaron Ryder

Written by Brittanie N Booker

                        Hannah Shakespeare

Starring

John Cusack

Alice Eve

Brendan Gleeson

Luke Evans

Kevin McNally

Pam Ferris

Sergej Trifunovic

Ian Virgo

Sam Hazeldine

Music by   Lucas Vidal

Cinematography: Danny Ruhlmann

Editing by         Niven Howie

Studio: Relativity Media

                FilmNation Entertainment

                Intrepid Pictures

Distributed by    Rogue Pictures

Release date:    March 9, 2012 (UK)

                           April 27, 2012 (USA)

Running time:   111 minutes

Language:   English

Budget:         $26 million

Box office: $22,438,625 

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The Raven (2012)

Synopsis:

When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore 

detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality. The film opens in 19th century Maryland – where several Baltimore policemen are chasing after the screams of a woman in an apartment. The police arrive at the apartment in time only to discover a woman sprawled on the floor with her throat sliced open and the corpse of her daughter stuffed in the chimney. Detective Emmett Fields is called to assist in the investigation and discovers that the crime resembles a fictional murder in the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", which is part of a collection of stories penned by the writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe has become a social pariah and penniless drunkard whose stories have not been circulated for some  time. He has fallen in love with the beautiful young Emily Hamilton and desires to marry her but faces  opposition from her father Captain Hamilton, a military man who loathes Poe and goes to the length of threatening physical violence. Poe is brought to see Fields for questioning and is horrified to learn someone is using his stories as the backdrop for a series of murders. Fields then proposes that Poe volunteer his services to help the police catch the killer and Poe agrees to the task. The two men are called to investigate the murder of literary critic Rufus Griswold, the man who became Poe's rival after a feud that was published in the Baltimore newspapers. Poe realizes the gruesome crime resembles a scene from "The Pit and the Pendulum" as Fields notices a red demon mask near the corpse. The two then deduce that the scene of the next crime will take place at Captain Hamilton's annual masquerade ball – a scene that will resemble the Masked Ball in "The Masque of the Red Death". Fields assigns several members of the Baltimore Police to go undercover as guests at the Masked Ball. Sometime before midnight, at the height of the festivities, a man on horseback dressed in a skeleton costume appears. 

Fields shoots the man only to learn he was an actor hired for the entertainment and receives an anonymous note. Poe then realizes Emily has been kidnapped, meaning the event was all a distraction. It's revealed in the killer's note that he will continue to commit murders and leave clues to Emily's location. The killer then threatens to kill Emily if Poe does not start writing columns for the newspaper that describe the brutal combination of fact and fiction – forcing Poe to comply with the request in order to save Emily.

Later, the local Medical School's anatomy class discovers a live raven and the corpse of a prostitute in theatrical clothing. Poe and Fields investigate and deduce the scene resembles "The Mystery of Marie  Rogêt" except for one detail – the blood on the corpse's hands was not an element of Poe's story. The two soon learn the woman was an actress in costume as Lady Macbeth and rush to the theatre where the victim  worked, demanding to see all the stage hands. All the stage hands are accounted for except for Maurice, a sailor on leave after his ship landed in Baltimore. Poe and Fields notice a mysterious figure running  along the catwalks and pursue him but the figure escapes. Fields later makes an off-handed comment that the name of the ship Maurice arrived on is the Fortunato – which prompts Poe to realize the next murder will resemble "The Cask of Amontillado".

Poe and Fields search tunnels under the city with several policemen and discover an area with fresh brickwork, an area that might be where Emily is being held. The officers smash through the brick and discover what appears to be a woman with blonde hair in the costume Emily wore the night she was kidnapped. But the body is revealed to be that of the sailor Maurice, who was dressed to resemble Emily after he was killed and buried in the niche.

Two clues are found on Maurice: a pocket watch that was stopped at 12:27 and then stuffed into his mouth, and a tattoo on his back that had some flesh carved out of it. Poe and Fields deduce these clues will give the location of Emily, and Poe realizes a church in Baltimore called Holy Cross is where Emily must be. Everyone races to the church but they find it locked. While attempting to break in, one policeman whose name is PC Cantrell shoots at the killer but the latter jumps from the roof and slits PC Cantrell's throat. Poe and Fields hear the shooting and race to catch the killer who shoots Fields and incapacitates him. Poe takes after the killer in a horse race but the killer escapes. Poe walks back to the church where he meets up with Captain Hamilton, who finally apologizes for his treatment of Poe. Fields discovers a grave at the church that has Emily's name written on a wooden cross, but the 

 grave is empty.

Poe then decides to write a new column in which he tells the killer that he's tired of this game and is willing to exchange his life for Emily's if only the killer would release Emily. Poe dashes this new column off quickly, the editor loves it, and Ivan the typesetter is then tasked with getting the column to print. People in Baltimore, while still enjoying the excitement of the murders, decide to burn down Poe's house because they blame his stories for inspiring this bloodshed.

Poe then moves in with Fields because he no longer has lodgings. In the morning, the maid gives Poe both the newspaper and a letter from the killer. Poe deduces that the killer left the note on the doorstep the night before. Then, the paper boy came by and put the newspaper on top of the note after it stopped raining. Poe therefore deduces that the killer is someone who read his new column before it was published. Poe then assumes the killer is the newspaper editor.

Fields, meanwhile, is having surgery with no anesthetic to remove a bullet from his shoulder. The doctor uses a magnet to find the bullet in his flesh, an experience Fields later uses to realize that the ink the killer used in all his notes was magnetic. Since this is the type of ink used in newspaper printing, Fields later independently realizes that someone at the paper is the killer.

Poe reaches the newspaper office and finds the editor dead, with his hands separated from his arms and his body arranged at his desk as if writing a letter. In front of the editor is a note that reads, "Getting Warmer!" Ivan congratulates him on finding him, and then explains that he missed Poe's writing so much that he decided to make up a story of his own and then act it out in real life so that Poe would have to write about it.

Poe pulls out a gun but Ivan reminds him that Emily will die if he pulls the trigger. So Poe hands the gun over to Ivan and tells him that he can kill him if he will release Emily. Ivan gives Poe a vial of poison and tells him to drink it, so that he can keep talking to his "favorite writer" while the poison slowly kills him. Once Poe is too weak to go for help, Ivan tells Poe that he's moving to Paris because he wants to do the same to Jules Verne. Poe learns that Ivan will be traveling under the name "Reynolds".

Before Ivan leaves, he makes a reference to the Telltale Heart and Poe realizes that Emily is buried under the floor right where he's sitting. He breaks through the floor into the cellar and digs Emily out. The police get there and put Emily in an ambulance. Poe wanders off to a park bench to die after telling Emily that they will be married in heaven. While he's sitting there, a bearded man comes over and says he recognizes him as "Edgar Poe" the famous writer. That pleases Poe, but the poison has him so addled, all he can say to the man is "tell Fields his name is Reynolds", which the man interprets as nonsense. Later, at the hospital where Poe is pronounced dead, the doctor tells Fields that Poe's last words were unintelligible, that he had "said that Fields' last name was Reynolds". Ivan is seen exiting a train station in France, and as he enters a carriage Fields greets him with a pistol. Then, Ivan jumps at Fields and a gunshot is heard.

Production:

Jeremy Renner was originally going to star in the film (playing the role later taken by Luke Evans), but he dropped out so that he could star in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.[6] Ewan McGregor was also in talks for a role, but he also dropped out. On August 28, 2010, it was confirmed that John Cusack would play Edgar Allan Poe in the film. Joaquin Phoenix was also approached to star at one point.

The filming began on November 9, 2010 in Belgrade and Budapest. The first images from the set were revealed on November 15, 2010. A trailer for the film was released online October 7, 2011. This date is significant because it also marks the anniversary of Poe's death at age 40 in 1849. In 2011 Relativity acquired U.S. rights for only $4 million.

While the plot of the film is fictional, the writers based it in some accounts of real situations surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death. Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name "Reynolds" on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring.

Reception:

Critical reaction to The Raven has been mixed to negative. The film holds a rating of 21% on Rotten Tomatoes and 46% on Metacritic. James Berardinelli gave the film two and a half stars out of four, writing: "The Raven looks great and is well-paced, but a lack of a compelling resolution makes it an anemic effort." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "The story has its moments, and yet there is something about this tale ... that doesn't completely satisfy."

Directed by James McTeigue

Produced by Marc D Evans

                        Trevor Macy

                        Aaron Ryder

Written by Brittanie N Booker

                        Hannah Shakespeare

Starring

John Cusack

Alice Eve

Brendan Gleeson

Luke Evans

Kevin McNally

Pam Ferris

Sergej Trifunovic

Ian Virgo

Sam Hazeldine

Music by       Lucas Vidal

Cinematography: Danny Ruhlmann

Editing by Niven Howie

Studio Relativity Media

                FilmNation Entertainment

                Intrepid Pictures

Distributed by   Rogue Pictures

Release date:    March 9, 2012 (UK)

                           April 27, 2012 (USA)

Running time:    111 minutes

Language: English

Budget:         $26 million

Box office: $22,438,625 

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